An International Conference Hosted by College of Humanities and Social and

Behavioral Sciences

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort

Mount Pleasant, Michigan

October 30-31, 2015

HRLASS:

Human Rights,

Literature, the Arts,

and Social Sciences

Conference convener: Professor Maureen N. Eke, Department of English Language & Literature

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2015 Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences

International Conference

An International Conference Hosted by Central Michigan

University

October 30-31, 2015

at

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort and

Mount Pleasant, Michigan

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HRLASS 2015 October 30-31, 2015

Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Sponsored by: CMU Bookstore

CMU Cultural & Global Studies Program

College of Communication and Fine Arts

College of Education & Human Services

College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral

Sciences (CHSBS)

Department of English Language and Literature

Department of Foreign Languages, Literature

and Cultures

Isabella County Human Rights

Committee

Office for Institutional Diversity

Office of the Provost

Women and Gender Studies Program

Conference Convener: Dr. Maureen N. Eke, Professor, Department of

English Language and Literature

Conference Committee: Jessica Axe, CMU Graduate Student

Elizabeth A. Podufaly Bauer, CMU Alumna

Rae Barrett, Events Coordinator, CHSBS

Jacque Billette, CMU Alumna

Sarah Buckley, Coordinator of Marketing &

Publications, CHSBS

Micki Christiansen, Executive Secretary,

Department of English Language and

Literature

Erika Murdey, CMU Graduate Student

Special Thanks to: Kelly Gere, Administrative Secretary,

Department of English Language and

Literature

Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort

Conference Student Volunteer: Makaela Lockwood, CMU Student

Conference Lodging and

Accommodations: Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort

Program designed by Dr. Maureen N. Eke, Elizabeth A.

Podufaly Bauer, and Kelly Gere

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Meeting Space 5

Schedule of Events 5

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Preamble 6

Detailed Daily Agenda: Friday 7 – 12

Welcome 7

Keynote Speaker, Barbara McQuade 8

Panel A 7

Panel B 7

Panel C 9

Panel D 9

Staged Reading: The Frybread Queen 10-11

Detailed Daily Agenda: Saturday 12

Panel E 12

Closing Forum 12

Storytelling Performance 12

Closing Ceremony 12

Participant Index 13

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SOARING EAGLE CASINO & RESORT MEETING SPACE Lobby Level

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, October 30th Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, Saginaw Room

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Ceremony

9:00-10:30 a.m. Session A: Discourse of Human Rights, Identity,

Language, and Politics

10:40-12:10 p.m. Session B: Investigating Human Traficking: Case

Studies, Narratives, and Reports

12:20-1:30 p.m. Luncheon Keynote Address

1:45-3:15 p.m. Women’s Experiences, Women’s Rights

3:30-5:15 p.m. Depicting and Addressing Difference in

Literature, the Arts, and the Media

5:30-6:45 p.m. Dinner and Reception

7:00-9:30 p.m. Staged Reading: The Frybread Queen

Saturday, October 31st Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, Saginaw Room

8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Minority Rights, Indigenous Rights, and the UN

10:10-11:20 a.m. Closing Forum

11:20-11:50 a.m. Storytelling Performance: Gayle Ross

11:50 a.m. Closing ceremony

HRLASS events

will be held in the

Saginaw Room

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948

Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human

family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the

conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and

belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against

tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human

rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have

determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the

promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full

realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF

HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every

individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and

education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and

international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of

Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

UDHR Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and

should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

FRIDAY, October 30th

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8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Registration Lobby

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Welcome & Opening Ceremony

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

A. Discourse of Human Rights: Identity, Language, and Politics

Chair: Randall Doyle, Mid Michigan Community College

Joshua Adams (Central Michigan University), “Coming Out for International Students”

Bill Blond (Central Michigan University), “Being a Careful Catalyst: How do we respectfully expose

international students to critically analyze human rights issues in their countries of origin?”

John Gagnon (Michigan State University), “Words Matter: Race, Rhetoric, and How We Talk about

Human Trafficking”

Michelle Kourouma (Central Michigan University), “Specific Learning Differences, the American

University, and the English Language Learner: Finding the Individual within the Ecological Model”

Randall Doyle (Mid Michigan Community College), “Human Rights, the U.S. Department of State, and

International Politics in the 21st Century”

10:40 AM – 12:10 PM

B. Investigating Human Trafficking: Case Studies, Narratives, and Reports

Chair: Tracy Collins (Central Michigan University)

Terry McGlasson, Kara Eastling, Brooke Huber, Kris Spedowski, Ann Webster Marsh (Central

Michigan University) “Healing Hidden Wounds: The Mental Health Needs of Victims of Human

Trafficking”

Melanie Weaver (Arizona State University), “Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Survivor Perspectives”

Brianna O’Steen (University of South Florida), “Redefining Sex Trafficking of Domestic Female

Minors through the Florida Safe Harbor Act”

Amanda Brake (Mid Michigan Community College), “The Voice of the Working Class Single Mom.

Stereotypes vs. Reality”

Syed S. Uddin-Ahmed (St. John’s University), “Projects Abroad Human Rights: The Case of the

Youngsfield Military Base Refugees in Cape Town, South Africa

FRIDAY, October 30th

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12:20 PM – 1:30 PM

Luncheon Keynote Address: Barbara McQuade

(Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan)

Barbara L. McQuade is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern

District of Michigan. She was appointed by President

Barack Obama in 2009.

The first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern

District of Michigan, Ms. McQuade was an Assistant U.S.

Attorney in Detroit for 12 years. She served as Deputy

Chief of the National Security Unit from 2005 to 2009.

From 2003 to 2009, McQuade served as an adjunct law

professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law,

teaching Criminal Law in the evenings.

Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, McQuade

practiced law at the firm of Butzel Long in Detroit, and

served as a law clerk to Hon. Bernard A. Friedman on the

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Born in Detroit, McQuade is a 1987 graduate of the

University of Michigan and a 1991 graduate of the

University of Michigan Law School. She and her husband

have four children.

UDHR Article 3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

UDHR Article 2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without

distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other

opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction

shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country

or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing

or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

FRIDAY, October 30th

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1:45 PM – 3:15 PM

C. Women’s Experiences, Women’s Rights

Chair: Karen Radell, Mid Michigan Community College

Maria Boikova Struble (Western State Colorado University), “Old and Poor: The Politics of Elderly

Care in America”

Dorine Lumsifu (Women Of Action Against Gender Inequality Cameroon), “Business and Gender

Equality in Cameroon”

Jingwi Faith Kawah (Global Conscience Initiative), “Forced Marriages in Cameroon”

Kristie Roberts­Lewis (Troy University) and LaKerri R. Mack (Troy University), “Women’s Rights:

Examining the Sexual Trafficking of Women & Girls in the African Diaspora”

Karen Radell (Mid Michigan Community College), “Narratives of Human Trafficking: Where Art &

Power, Culture & State Collide”

3:30-5:15 PM

D. Depicting and Addressing Difference in Literature, the Arts, and the Media

Chair: Leïla Ennaïli, Central Michigan University

Susanne Garbe (Trinity College, Dublin), “Can Magic Realism Speak?”

Kali Wright­Smith (Westminster College), “From Words to Justice: Using Discourse to Understand and

Encourage Compliance with the Inter­American Court of Human Rights

Mark Poindexter (Central Michigan University), “Talk Radio in a Multiethnic Society: Radio FreeDom

in the French Overseas Department of Reunion.”

Liliana Mendoza Ortiz (Program of Development and Peace of Magdalena), “Contributions of Songs at

the Symbolic Reparation in Collective Victims of Conflict in Colombia: Study of the Case ASOCAB

Julia Udofia (University of Uyo), “Human Rights, Child­Prostitution: Personal and Societal

Implications: Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail”

Leïla Ennaïli (Central Michigan University), “Human Rights and the Roma Question in France in

Documentary Images”

5:30-6:45 PM

Dinner and Reception

UDHR Article 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade

shall be prohibited in all their forms.

FRIDAY, October 30th

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7:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Staged Reading: The Frybread Queen: a Play by Carolyn Dunn (Dr. Jean Bruce Scott)

The Frybread Queen is a play by Carolyn Dunn that deals with three generations of Native American women

who are engaged in a struggle for their survival and for the future. (Short Q/A Follows)

Aleut actress, director,

choreographer and

playwright Jane Lind

began her professional

career at the Institute of

American Indian Arts in

Santa Fe, New Mexico,

and continued her

training at New York

University and Paris, France.

As a co-founder of the

Native American Theater

Ensemble, she performed

in various productions by

Peter Brooks, Hanay Geiogamah, John

Vacarro, Andrei Serban and Ellen

Stewart. Jane was the female lead and choreographer for

Donovan Marley's production of "Black Elk Speaks" for

which she received the prestigious awards of Best

Choreographer from the Denver Drama Critics Circle and

Best Actress from the First Americans in the Arts.

Jane's film and television credits include Percy Adlon's

"Salmonberries", the mini-series "Return to Lonesome

Dove" and TNT's "Crazy Horse".

Her theater credits include the Cherokee Historical

Society's "Unto These Hills", Juneau, Alaska's

Perseverence Theater's productions of "Raven's Odyssey"

and "The Vagina Monologues", the Theater of Yugen's

"Crazy Horse-Moon of the Scarlet Plums," and most

recently Native Voices at the Autry's "The Frybread

Queen" in Los Angeles.

Shyla Marlin’s (Choctaw) recent highlighted theatre

credits include Native Visions (Will & Co), Off the Rails

(Native Voices), Ungipamsuuka (My Story) & The

Frybread Queen (Native Voices).

Highlighted Film/TV credits include Whatever It Takes

(Sony), The Alibi (Endgame Entertainment), Woo (New

Line), Fashion House (MyTV), Saints and Sinners

(MyTV), and Minding the Store (TBS).

Writing and producing credits include The

Hummingbirds (Native Voices and LATC Playwright

Workshops), Still Standing (Vitality Prod.), and A

Starbuck’s Story (“Best Short,” FAIF Film Festival). A

graduate of the University of Southern California, she

studied Theatre and French.

Shyla Marlin

Jane Lind

FRIDAY, October 30th

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The Frybread Queen, Cast Cont.

Elizabeth

Frances' film/TV

credits include Ghost

Forest, Hunting

(Cannes 2012 short

film corner selection),

and Drunktown's

Finest with Executive

Producer Robert

Redford. Elizabeth

was also featured as

one of twelve actors in

the 2012 Talent

Showcase with ABC.

Ms. Frances has

performed at various theaters

including Center Theater

Group, La Jolla Playhouse,

Los Angeles Theater Center, Shakespeare Santa Cruz,

Native Voices, and The Kirk Douglas Theater. Her

work ranges from the narrative to the experimental

including work with artists Travis Preston, Phil

Soltanoff (Mad Dog Theater), Jim Findlay (Wooster

Group), and Robert Cantarella (Artistic Director of

104 in Paris, France).

She has developed and performed world premiere

presentations with writers Josefina Lopez, Carolyn

Dunn, and Melinda Lopez. Recently, she has co-

written the play "Hummingbirds", which has been

workshopped at the Wells Fargo Theater with Native

Voices at the Autry in combination with UCLA and

LATC. She holds a BFA from Calarts.

http://www.elizabethfrances.com/

Jean Bruce Scott, Founder and Producing

Executive Director of Native Voices at the Autry

has spent over 20 years developing new plays,

including over 200 by Native American

playwrights. She has produced thirty plays

including twenty-six premieres, 21 New Play

Festivals, 12 Playwrights Retreats, over 200 play

readings, and 19 national and international tours.

She is co-creator of the Native Radio Theater

Project, a collaboration between Native Voices

and Native American Public Telecommunications

and developed The Alaska Native Playwrights

Project.

Jean serves on the National Advisory Board for

the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the

Leadership Board of the Theatrical Producer’s

League of Los

Angeles, Large-Size

Theatres, the Board

of Directors for The

Media Arts Center,

San Diego, and is an

elected member to

the National Theatre

Conference.

Elizabeth Frances

Yoakem

Jean Scott, Dir.

UDHR Article 15 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;

this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference

and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through

any media and regardless of frontiers.

FRIDAY, October 30th

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Carolyn Dunn, The Frybread Queen playwright

Carolyn Dunn, PhD., is an American Indian artist of Cherokee, Muskogee Creek,

and Seminole descent on her father's side, and is Cajun, French Creole, and

Tunica-Biloxi on her mother's. Her work has been recognized by the Wordcraft

Circle of Storytellers and Writers as Book of the Year for poetry (Outfoxing

Coyote, 2002) as well as the Year's Best in 1999 for her short story "Salmon

Creek Road Kill," Native American Music Awards (for the Mankillers cd Comin

to Getcha) and the Humboldt Area Foundation. In addition to Outfoxing Coyote,

her books include Through the Eye of the Deer (Aunt Lute Books, 1999), Hozho:

Walking in Beauty (McGraw Hill, 2002), Coyote Speaks (H.N. Abrams,

2008), Echolocation: Poems, Stories and Songs from Indian Country: L.A.

(Fezziweg Press, 2013), and the forthcoming The Stains of Burden and Dumb

Luck (Mongrel Empire Press, 2016).

As an academic, Dr. Dunn's work has primarily focused on landscape in

American Indian women's literature (poetry, prose, and drama), and urban

American Indian identity formation in California. She received her Doctorate in

American Studies (with a focus on American Indian Literature and Theater) from

the University of Southern California, where she was a James Irvine Fellow, and an M.A. in American Indian literature and

folklore from UCLA. Her essays have appeared in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Belles Lettres, and the

anthologies American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions, Reading Native American Women, and Cultural

Representation and Contestation in Native America, among others. She has taught and developed university curriculum in

American Indian literature (poetry and fiction), history, and theatre; she has adapted and directed numerous radio theatre plays

as well as staged productions of traditional stories, poems and songs with the American Indian Theatre Collective, Chapa De

Indian Youth Theatre Company, The Los Angeles Theater Project, and directed a staged reading of Arigon Starr's one woman

play, The Red Road for Native Voices at The Autry at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles in 2005. Her fiction and poetry

appeared in numerous anthologies, including After (Hyperion, 2012), The Coyote Road (Viking, 2007) and Green Man: Tales

from the Mythic Forest (Viking, 2004). Her plays have been produced all over the country; her most recent play, The Frybread

Queen, premiered in Los Angeles in March 2011, after a developmental production at Montana Repertory Theater and at the

La Jolla Playhouse. The play has been called "one of the most talked about new Native theater pieces in the United States."

(Broadway World).

Currently, Dr. Dunn is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Language and Creative Writing and is the Associate Vice

President for Institutional Diversity at Central Michigan University, where she oversees grant programs that support student

academic outreach, support and retention with an annual grant fund budget of over $300,000 dollars, including Upward Bound,

GEAR Up, King Chavez Parks programs, and Michigan Campus Compact.

UDHR Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman

or degrading treatment or punishment.

SATURDAY, October 31st

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8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Registration Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Lobby

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

E. Minority Rights, Indigenous Rights, & the U.N. Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort, Saginaw Room

Chair: Aliko Songolo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Maissara Saeed (German Sudanese Association for Development ), “There is a Rat in My Kitchen, What

Am I Going to Do?”

Syed S. Uddin­Ahmed (St. John's University), “Uyghur Muslim Minorities: Discriminatory Policies

from Mao to the Present”

Maureen N. Eke (Central Michigan University), “Negotiating Identity: Exploring Griqua Rights and

First Nation Identities in a (Post)Apartheid State”

Vivek Kumar Dwivedi (Northern Border University), “Human Rights: A Ploy to Recolonize the Third

World”

Aliko Songolo (University of Wisconsin­Madison), “The DRC Mapping Exercise Report: A Dead

Letter?”

10:10 AM – 11:20 AM

Closing Forum: Indigenous Women, Rights, and Security

Chair: Maureen N. Eke, Central Michigan University

11:20 AM – 11:50 AM

Storytelling Performance: Gayle Ross

11:50 AM

Closing Ceremony

UDHR Article 13 (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and

residence within the borders of each state.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his

own, and to return to his country.

UDHR Article 15 (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality

nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Index of HRLASS 2015 Participants and Panels

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Adams, Joshua………………………………………………………….……..………..A

Blond, Bill………………………………………………………..…………………….A

Brake, Amanda…………………………………………………………………..……..B

Collins, Tracy*………………………………………………………………………….B

Doyle, Randall………………………………………………………...…………...…...A

Dunn, Carolyn…………………………………………………….……Reading, Closing

Dwivedi, Vivek Kumar………………………………………………………..…..........E

Eastling, Kara…………………………………………………………………..…...…..B

Ennaïli, Leïla *………………………………………………………………..…...…...D

Eke, Maureen*……………………………………………………………..….E, Closing

Gagnon, John T……………………………………………………………..…...……...A

Garbe, Susanne………………………………………………………………....………D

Huber, Brooke……………………………………………………………….……….....B

Kawah, Jingwi Faith…………………………………………………….…………...…C

Kourouma, Michelle Sue……………………………………………………….…...….A

Lind, Jane………………………………………………………....……Reading, Closing

Lumisfu, Dorine…………………………………………………………...……….…...D

Mack, Lakerri R……………………………………………………..…………….……C

Marlin, Shayla……………………………………………………….....Reading, Closing

McGlasson, Terry………………………………………………….………..………….B

McQuade, Barbara……………………………………………………..…….….Keynote

Mendoza Ortiz, Liliana……………………………………………………….……...…D

O’Steen, Brianna……………………………………………………………..…..……..B

Poindexter, Mark…………………………………………………………………...…..D

Radell, Karen*………………………………………………………………….…....…C

Randell, Doyle*…………………………………………………………………….…..A

Roberts-Lewis, Kristie…………………………………………………………….…....C

Ross, Gayle……………………………………………………………..……Storytelling

Saeed, Maissara M……………………………………………………………….……..E

Scott, Jean…………………………………………………………..….Reading, Closing

Songolo, Aliko*..…………………………………………………………………….…E

Spedowski, Kris…………………………………………………………………….…..B

Struble, Maria Boikova……………………………………………………...……….…C

Uddin-Ahmed, Syed………………………………………………………………….B,E

Udofia, Julia…………………………………………………………………………….D

Weaver, Melanie………………………………………………………………………..B

Webster Marsh, Ann………….………………………………………………………...B

Wright-Smith, Kali……………...………………………………………………….…..C

Yoakem, Elizabeth……………………………………………………..Reading, Closing * Panel/Event Chair

UDHR Article 25 (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself

and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services,

and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability,

widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children,

whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.